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On April 22 of this year, just two months before Milan Lucic was traded from Boston to Los Angeles, Lucic's father, Dobro Lucic, died unexpectedly. Milan Lucic and his family kept the circumstances surrounding his father's death understandably quiet at the time, but in an interview with Hockey Night In Canada Saturday, Lucic finally shared with the public what really happened. Lucic's father committed suicide. "Because it was a suicide, it was definitely hard on me," Lucic told the cameras. "Not having my dad there to call or have him call me is definitely something that I'm still getting used to, but at the back of my mind, I know what he would say to me in certain situations and try to use it to keep making him proud." Milan Lucic's father's death was just the start of an up-and-down summer for the winger. Lucic's wife delivered their second child, another daughter, on May 20. The trade from the only organization Lucic ever knew in Boston to a Kings team on the other side of the country came on June 26. Th

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